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Dolan, who along with Moreno is making his second straight bid for the Senate in Ohio, has highlighted that he\u2019s a supporter of Trump\u2019s policies but not the former president\u2019s personality. Dolan is the only one of the three major candidates not to seek Trump\u2019s support.<\/p>\n
Moreno, an immigrant who arrived in the U.S. legally from Colombia and later became a successful Cleveland-based businessman and luxury auto dealership giant, was endorsed by Trump in December.<\/p>\n
Vance, who will campaign with Moreno across Ohio on Monday, last year backed him, which was seen as a prelude to the eventual Trump endorsement. Moreno also enjoys the support of two other Trump allies \u2014 Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, a Buckeye State native. Vance, Jordan, and two other Trump allies \u2013 Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota and 2024 Arizona Senate candidate and 2022 Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake \u2013 will attend Saturday\u2019s rally.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After DeWine endorsed Dolan, Moreno framed the race as a battle between \u2018the America-First Republican Party\u2019 and the \u2018RINO establishment.\u2019<\/p>\n
And Andy Surabian, a senior Moreno campaign adviser who\u2019s close to Trump\u2019s political orbit, emphasized in a social media post that \u2018the Ohio Senate race is officially Team America First vs Team RINO.\u2019<\/p>\n
RINO is a term used to insult some in the GOP as \u2018Republicans in name only.\u2019<\/p>\n
There\u2019s been a dearth of public polling in the Republican Senate primary, and the three major campaigns are treating the race as a dead heat ahead of next week\u2019s primary. Millions have been spent by the campaigns and aligned super PACs to flood the airwaves with negative attack ads.<\/p>\n
And now Democrats are meddling in the primary.<\/p>\n
Duty and Country PAC, which is funded by Senate Majority PAC, the top super PAC supporting Senate Democrats, is dishing out nearly $3 million in the final days ahead of the primary to run ads boosting Moreno, whom they view as the weakest general election nominee.<\/p>\n
There was another major development in the primary race this week, as the Associated Press published a report Thursday claiming that an adult hookup website account was created in 2008 using an email linked to Moreno.<\/p>\n
Pushing back against the report, Moreno called it \u2018a sick, last-minute attack by desperate people.\u2019<\/p>\n
The winner of the GOP primary will face off in November against Brown, who is the only Democrat to win\u00a0statewide in Ohio over the past decade. Brown is being heavily targeted by Republicans in a state that was once a premiere battleground before shifting red.<\/p>\n
Democrats control the U.S. Senate with a 51-49 majority, but Republicans are looking at a favorable Senate map in 2024, with Democrats defending 23 of the 34 seats up for grabs. Three of those seats are in red states that Trump carried in 2020 \u2014 Ohio, Montana and West Virginia, where Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin is not running for re-election.<\/p>\n
Five others seats are in key swing states narrowly carried by President Biden in 2020 \u2014 Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
As Trump locks up the GOP presidential nomination, he\u2019s once again exerting increasing control over the Republican Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A week ago, a top Trump ally and the former president\u2019s daughter-in-law were installed as chair and co-chair of the Republican National Committee. On Monday, the new regime at the RNC pushed roughly 60 current staffers out the door.<\/p>\n
But Trump\u2019s clout with congressional Republicans suffered a setback this week, as the GOP-controlled House went against Trump\u2019s wishes. A few weeks after downing a bipartisan border deal in Congress, partially due to the former president\u2019s wishes, most House Republicans supported the passage \u2014 over Trump\u2019s objections \u2014 of a bill that could eventually ban TikTok in the U.S.<\/p>\n
The showdown in Ohio is one of the few major down-ballot GOP primaries where the Trump-backed candidate is at risk of losing.<\/p>\n
\u2018Trump\u2019s got a lot invested in Bernie Moreno,\u2019 veteran Republican strategist Matt Gorman said.<\/p>\n
Longtime Ohio-based GOP consultant Mike Hartley, who remains neutral in this year\u2019s primary, told Fox News \u2018it\u2019s important to Trump, evidenced by the fact that he\u2019s coming into the state, just like he did for JD Vance.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018President Trump wants to have allies in Congress to help him get his agenda passed. I think it\u2019s as simple as that,\u2019 Hartley added.<\/p>\n\n
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